Danielle Graves Williamson selected as a NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow
Congrats to PhD candidate, Danielle Graves Williamson, who was recently selected as a 2025 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Dissertation Fellow. This year, the selection committee, comprised of leading scholars in education research, selected 35 fellows from an extremely competitive pool of over 400 scholars. These fellowships provide funding and professional development to early-career scholars […]
2024 Rosenstein-Rodan Prize Awarded to Justin Jihao Hong
We are very happy to announce the winner of the 2024 Rosenstein-Rodan prize, awarded by the IED: Justin Jihao Hong: Corruption and Human Capital Supply for the State Congratulations, Justin! The Rosenstein-Rodan prize is awarded annually in memory of Professor Paul Rosenstein-Rodan. A monetary prize is awarded to the best research paper(s) in development economics […]
Prof. Miyauchi, Prof. Lagakos and Deffenbach win IGC grant to study development issues in urban settings
Professor Yuhei Miyauchi, Professor David Lagakos, and PhD student Peter Deffenbach have been awarded a grant from the International Growth Center for a project entitled “City Structure, Income Structure, and Development.” To learn more about the IGC, see here.
Announcing the 2024 ASHEcon Award Recipients
Congratulations to Randy Ellis who has won the Victor R. Fuchs Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Health Economics, the highest award of the American Society of Health Economists! To learn more about the award and past winners, see here. Former student Tim Layton and current student Abi Dow both appear on the recognition list as […]
PhD student Sophie Li wins IPUMS research award
Sophie Li, a PhD student in the Economics Department, was awarded the IPUMS Excellence in Research Award for her work on gender dynamics in the US Postal Service. The IPUMS mission of democratizing data demands that we increase the representation of scholars from groups that are systemically excluded in research spaces. This award is an opportunity to highlight […]
2024 Abdala Fieldwork Grants winners announced
The Institute for Economic Development in the Department of Economics announces the recipients of the 2024 Abdala fieldwork research grants, which are made possible by a generous gift from alumnus Manuel Abdala: Laura Aquino & John Hassett Mexican Gender Parity Rules and the Changing Faces of Women’s Executive Power Anastasiia Arbuzova Gendered Differences in Mobility […]
Economics students accepted into University of Chicago Summer Programming
Congratulations to Economics PhD student Ayush Gupta, who will attend this year’s Price Theory Summer Camp, an intensive one-week program hosted by The University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute for Economics with the goal of introducing Economics PhDs to price theory. An additional congratulations to undergraduate Economics student Zifan Huang, who is among a 45-student cohort accepted to this […]
2016 Rosenstein-Rodan Prize awarded to Mesay Gebresilasse
The Institute for Economic Development awards the Rosenstein-Rodan Prize for the best original research on development economics or a related discipline among PhD students. This year there was an extraordinarily large number of high quality submissions, making the problem of selection particularly difficult. The papers were read and evaluated by a committee of six IED […]
PhD Student’s Summer Class Talks Poverty
Current Ph.D. student Lee Tucker is teaching a summer course called Economics of Poverty and Discrimination in the United States. An article in BU Today featured Tucker’s fascinating course on this complex topic, which includes discussions on gender, race, age, and more. Tucker is inspiring his students to bring their questions around poverty into their […]
PhD Student Bitsy Perlman is Finalist in GRS 3MT
The Graduate School held the preliminary rounds for the first BU 3 Minute Thesis competition and our own Bitsy Perlman (PhD ’16) is a finalist. No, 3 Minute Thesis competition doesn’t mean it takes three minutes to write the thesis, though certainly many PhD students are wishing that was feasible. Instead, it means presenting the […]